Is it a drinking fountain or not?

We in Zagreb, Croatia have a similar design. The one on the photo was painted, but they were usually dark green, like the Vienna ones. The tags we use are:

amenity=drinking_water + fountain=viktorija_zdenac

You press the handle, and the water comes out, with a pretty strong stream. You can’t drink from them and look dignified at the same time, but people do. Much better for filling up bottles. They were usually built for people to fill up buckets while there was no running water in some suburbs.

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I started Proposed features/Deprecate man made=drinking fountain - OpenStreetMap Wiki vote

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Dieses Modell in Tschechien wird vermutlich aus dem selben Zweck gebaut worden sein, um Kanister zu füllen. Man dreht den Knauf eine Viertel Umdrehungen und es läuft Wasser.

The tags we use are:

amenity=drinking_water + fountain=viktorija_zdenac

great, I have added it to the list on the fountain key page.

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Exactly.
It’s commonly called ‘drinking_fountain’ in certain cultures, but I think it’s the properties that matter, not the names.
Depending on the culture, the name may be different and the shape may be different, but the property is that it is a facility designed to provide water to humans.

Voted “no idea” as the first photo is unclear. The bottom is a water tap

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